Wincenty Lutosławski: filozof czy pisarz? Strategie autokreacyjne w Jednym łatwym żywocie

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to answer the question: which of Wincenty Lutosławski’s attitudes (philosopher or writer) dominates in his autobiography One Easy Life? The text is divided into two main parts. In the first, I treat Lutosławski’s work as a philosophical manifesto, a sage-educator’s appeal to his readers, a form of expression of his views, for which biographical facts are only a background. The second part is an analysis of the self-creative strategies used in this literary self-portrait. The arguments formulated on this basis emphasise Lutosławski’s writerly role in his social and educational activities, and force us to reconsider what he actually was and what One Easy Life now is.